Getting attached to units.

**Dyabedes of Aphrodisias** · 05-03-2007, 06:32

Hve you guys ever gotten kind of attached to a particular unit of something because you've had it for a long time and it's helped you countless times?

I've found myself attached to a unit of Iberi Caetrati as Carthage. I've conquered Sicily and the Italian peninsula now, and they are down to 72 men and have 3 chevrons. They were in my first army and are one of the few units left from then. I find myself recently reserving them as skirmishers (because of their AP javelins) because I don't want to lose them, even though those little bastards can hold (and have held) a line against principes. I'm going to send them marauding through the desert now after a quick vacation to sweet mother Iberia.

It seems stupid, but I'm sure some of you have had dear units...right? I guess I'm just a sad EB junkie now.

**LordCurlyton** · 05-03-2007, 06:53

Well there was this one Polybian Hastati unit that held an elite Epeirote phalanx (can't remember exact name) for quite some time. I was damn proud of those buggers. They didn't break or even waver for almost 10 min while my army chewed on the other elite phalanxes there before finally getting to that one. By the end they were down to 10 men, but they held, dammit! I believe in that campaign they are in Nubia or so, finishing off the Ptolemaic remnants there (yes I did retrain them), though it is now the Marians so all losses now are permanent.
And I also have this thing for Numidian Skirmishers and Numidian Skirmisher Cav now, after a full stack of em (12 inf, 7 cav, 1 gen) held off countless Ptolemaic incursions, using auto-calc no less. And even against elite armies with nothing but elite phalanxes and galatian heavies.

**deadmeat36** · 05-03-2007, 07:07

I am attached to my Pantodapoi unit in my AAR because they have taken on two units of the Arabian javelin calvary and survived long enough to be reniforced by other units and allowed me to take the city.

**MarcusAureliusAntoninus** · 05-03-2007, 07:17

I don't have a unit, but I have an army I can't disband. Even though I'm in the Avgvstan Era I have a Polybian Legion that conquered Gaul for me. I just can't bring myself to get rid of the guys...

**I of the Storm** · 05-03-2007, 08:51

As history taught us, keeping your best veterans and keeping 'em happy is wise...

I don't have such a special unit now, but I remember this one unit of triarii you got at the start in the vanillla Julii campaign - the mere mentioning of them caused fear among my enemies back then...